Lot 311
  • 311

Victor Vasarely

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Victor Vasarely
  • Turkiz (Positive and Negative): A Pair
  • each signed on the gallery label on the reverse
  • acrylic on wood relief
  • 15 by 14 by 1 1/2 in.
  • 38 by 35.5 by 3.8 cm.
  • Executed in 1967.

Provenance

Galerie Denise RenĂ©, Paris
Collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, DC (acquired from the above, 1968)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981

Condition

Positive: inscribed VERSO in black marker: 'S.68.80A'; in good condiiton aside from a stain upper right in red circle. Chips to wood that have been inpainted in edges of green block lower left and lower left edge of light blue box at center. Other scattered nicks to grey backing. Unframed. Negative: inscribed VERSO in black marker 'S.68.80B'. In good condition aside from surface dust and dirt. Chip to paint and wood upper left corner; abrasion lower left corner. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

'Positive' is number 44 from and edition of 50 and 'Negative' is number 42 from an edition of 50.